Miss Nevada’s Outstanding Teen Megan Dwyer of Elko won over $8,000 in scholarships and recently took first place at the State Finals for Speech and Debate
Miss Wisconsin Grace Stanke, a nuclear engineering student, was crowned Miss America 2023. Stanke succeeds Emma Broyles, the first Miss Alaska contestant to win the Miss America title in the competition’s 100-year history.
U.S. populations of the seabird have crashed in the past half century. Researchers hope an upcoming series of surveys will reveal how bad the situation is and if the bird should be considered endangered.